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Just curious; last night Bill O'Reilly said that socialism has never worked anywhere in the world and I just wanted to do a quick fact check. Thanks guys.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 16:27 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:23 |
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whats socialism
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 16:29 |
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I went there once and went to a restaurant. I asked them for a local beer and they brought me a Sam Adams. Capitalism wins.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 16:29 |
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no goku option, voted 1
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 16:30 |
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If those meatballs are any indication absolutely nothing over there is working properly.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 16:50 |
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give it 20 years and it'll be syria if they keep importing goatfuckers by the million
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 16:59 |
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i dont know what any of this means and i am registered to vote in arapahoe county colorado
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:00 |
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Their women seem pretty nice, they're good at hockey too, so I think so op
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:05 |
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Nobody in Sweden or Europe for that matter is working, as they don't have any jobs
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:05 |
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idk they got a whole lotta 'slims there. socialism seems bad
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I went there once and went to a restaurant. I asked them for a local beer and they brought me a Sam Adams. Capitalism wins.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:21 |
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i dont like the cut of any swede's jib
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:22 |
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im pretty sure it works great, sweden is basically paradise right? no one ever says anything bad about it, just"oh sweden is great, look at the beautiful people, look at the, I dunno, mountains? and whatever else there is there?" so it's gotta be d.a.f. (dope as gently caress)
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:26 |
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they have sick rear end fuckin cars there man (volvo, saab, koenigsegg, etc.), also i think you can have a nurse shoot you up with heroin so you don't o.d. (might be another scandinavian place like denmark, cant remember) DOPE AS gently caress is right
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:29 |
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The Swede on Hell On Wheels is pretty awesome. But he's Norwegian and is played by a Norwegian-Scot Canadian. So I dunno.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:30 |
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Sweden is capitalist. And it works.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:30 |
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also sweden has a pretty dece and oft-overlooked international football squad, ibrahimovitch plays for them i think
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:32 |
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they're doin somethin right w/ those tall blonde ladies i want them to hit me and call me names
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:28 |
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i have a swedish friend who i speak with very regularly and she finds this absurd and hilarious the democratic socialists have ruled in sweden for 100 years and it's been a fantastic success story Sweden's literally closing down prisons because their recidivism rates are so low and they don't have swaths of poors reusing medical needles because they can't afford health care
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:31 |
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Cthulu Carl posted:The Swede on Hell On Wheels is pretty awesome. "They call me The Swede. I'm from Norway " is one of the few cool things HOW ever did.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:33 |
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I liked Stockholm a lot. Everyone there spoke english so I didn't have to bother learning their gibberish.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:33 |
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Germany has labor laws that would be considered full blown Ernesto "Che" Communism in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany quote:Codetermination in Germany is a concept that involves the right of workers to participate in management of the companies they work for.[1] Known as Mitbestimmung, the modern law on codetermination is found principally in the Mitbestimmungsgesetz of 1976. The law allows workers to elect representatives (usually trade union representatives) for almost half of the supervisory board of directors. The legislation is separate from the main German company law Act for public companies, the Aktiengesetz. It applies to public and private companies, so long as there are over 2000 employees. For companies with 500-2000 employees, one third of the supervisory board must be elected. With these kind of socialist labor laws, universal education subsidized by the state, and robust health care, Germany has become to economy powerhouse of the EU
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:35 |
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AlexanderCA posted:Sweden is capitalist. And it works. It proves that the only way to prevent capitalism from completely cannibalizing itself and destroying the world is with strong, purposeful, socialist policies to offer a counter-balance to capitalisms tendency towards wealth and power concentration and exploitation
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:37 |
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During the 1950's and 1960's, the US had a small shift in the socialist direction, with record high Union Participation Rates, record high taxes on the top wealth brackets, massive social programs and entitlement spending, public works programs, education subsidies, and more policies that would be considered EXTREME LEFT WING in today's neoliberalism environment. during that time America saw the greatest expansion of the middle class in history, the greatest degree of upward mobility, the greatest number of people sharing in the greatest increase of wealth, massive educational opportunities and an awakened generation embracing new liberal ideas like those of the civil rights movement. Neoliberalism in the 1980's, led by the far right wingers like Ronald Reagan has dismantled all of those structures and protections and resulted in all of those things being eroded for the working class. Today, Neoliberalism and reaganonics has become unquestioned, with the "left wing" of the nation being led by a corporate-backed, big money, neoliberalism ghost named Clinton
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:43 |
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it works for me
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:44 |
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Commie NedFlanders posted:During the 1950's and 1960's, the US had a small shift in the socialist direction, with record high Union Participation Rates, record high taxes on the top wealth brackets, massive social programs and entitlement spending, public works programs, education subsidies, and more policies that would be considered EXTREME LEFT WING in today's neoliberalism environment. Americans seem to want to return to the Glory Days of the country without any of the conditions that allowed the country to be great. It's pretty funny, in a sad funny way.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:51 |
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Tomas Sandstrom was a "chickenshit Swede" for the LA Kings but I don't know if he was a socialist. Ask Tomas Sandstrom OP.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:55 |
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Navin Johnson posted:Tomas Sandstrom was a "chickenshit Swede" for the LA Kings but I don't know if he was a socialist. Ask Tomas Sandstrom OP. nice name jerk also sorry about ur reg date
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:56 |
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bring back alphabet soup!!!!!
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:57 |
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I've seen enough Bergman films to know everyone in Sweden is depressed so socialism can't be that great.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:00 |
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Hector Beerlioz posted:I've seen enough Bergman films to know everyone in Sweden is depressed so socialism can't be that great. where is the place where people are not depressed
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:04 |
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Commie NedFlanders posted:where is the place where people are not depressed daytona beach florda
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:05 |
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If Nordic countries are such utopias why do they put out so many angry sounding extreme metal bands?
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:05 |
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Commie NedFlanders posted:where is the place where people are not depressed Disney World
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:05 |
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Ex-Priest Tobin posted:If Nordic countries are such utopias why do they put out so many angry sounding extreme metal bands? canned fish has a lot of mercury in it
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:06 |
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Ex-Priest Tobin posted:If Nordic countries are such utopias why do they put out so many angry sounding extreme metal bands? state subsidies can't build socialism w/o metal
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:07 |
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It didn't work at first, then it did work, and now it's stopped working again. it's as if an ethos isn't the actual government, but instead its the people running it
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:09 |
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Ex-Priest Tobin posted:If Nordic countries are such utopias why do they put out so many angry sounding extreme metal bands? they need something to do when they aren't all mass murdering each other they have low crime rates; they channel it into their artwork
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:09 |
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Anderron Shi posted:Just curious; last night Bill O'Reilly said that socialism has never worked anywhere in the world and I just wanted to do a quick fact check. Thanks guys. It's worked in this here good ole US of A. See: the military-industrial complex.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:12 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 10:23 |
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basically socialsim works if you aren't a reactionary racist piece of poo poo
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